This & That, Education & Learning Well. An artists depiction of the layout of the wreckage of the SS Kamloops. Ahead of the Kamloops, another ship, the Quedoc, spotted a large black mass looming towards them. Yellowhorn, who grew up on a farm on the Peigan Indian reservation with many family members who attended residential schools, is both an archaeologist and anthropologist. This is the biggest fake news story in Canadian history, Flanagan told The Post. The Kamloops was following the steamer Quedoc on December 5 th when a massive storm hit Lake Superior. There are several bodies there -- in the story it's not an old wreck -- and as he moves through the ship he stirs the water and the bodies of the drowned sailors are drawn into his wake and move along behind him. , We need someone who's a SAR Diver to clear up that one. While no one is quite sure what caused the Kamloops to sink, the few clues that were discovered paint a pretty horrific picture. The Kamloops school operated between 1890 and 1969, when the Canadian government took over operations from the Catholic Church and operated it as a day school until it closed in 1978. I guess it's like a natural form of mummification. Canada's freshwater fleet, including Kamloops, was an essential link in this vein of imperial commerce. With a length . KAMLOOPS was of the vessel type built to the maximum possible canal dimensions. Some mystery surroun, Well. [3] Approximately fifty dives were made to Kamloops out of 1,062 dives made to wrecks in the Isle Royale National Park in 2009. The ship was 260ft deep, its detached smokestack lying a short distance away. [4] The ship, discovered sitting on the lake bottom under more than 260 feet (79m) of water,[8][9] is lying on its starboard side at the base of an underwater cliff. . First Nation members had long believed that the area held the remains of Kamloops students, according to both Casimir and Read. The grief is palpable in Kamloops, B.C., after a preliminary survey of the grounds of a former residential school uncovered the bodies of 215 children. Oberg had made a fathometer tracing several years earlier in the area that indicated a shipwreck lying on its side (Press release by Ken Engelbrecht and Thorn Holden, 1977). In spite of this spooky behavior none of the divers felt threatened by the presence of Old Whitey. The gruesome discovery took decades and for some survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in . The 250-foot, 2,226-ton, iron cargo ship was in a battle for her life, and all aboard knew that only his skill, and the grace of God, stood between them and the ravenous waters of Lake Superior. Althought there might not have been fish to munch old Whitey away, but what about the microscopic bactieria that I would think after neary 100 years would have made a bit of damage over time. Despite his own skepticism, Yellowhorn says its entirely possible that if excavations are ever carried out at Kamloops actual human remains could be found, much as they were in 2014 in Ireland after ground-penetrating radar showed anomalies at one of the countrys notorious mother and baby homes. [4], Kamloops was dispatched up the lakes in late November 1927, carrying a mixed cargo of tar paper, papermaking machinery, coiled wire for farm fencing, piping, shoes and foodstuffs. When the Kamloops failed to arrive at her destination on December 12 a search expedition was launched. I got a really big rush and started trucking over there" (Minneapolis Star, Oct. 13, 1977). Halloween Squishmallows: The Best Spooky and Paranormal Squishmallows. Kamloops, BC V2C 1T5. Marie, Capt. The experience we had last year does not deter us because we realize that a thing like that may not happen again for another 50 years." The steamship Kamloops was built by Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Haverton Hill within Stockton-on-Tees in the northeast of England for Steamships Ltd of Montreal, Quebec. - The Quixote, When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. He didnt want the same thing to happen to the rest of us kids. Royal University in Calgary. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank under mysterious conditions into the depths of Lake Superior in 1975, but the bodies of the crew have never been recovered.. More than 40 years ago, in her 17th year and 40th voyage, the ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, taking with all 29 members of the crew to the bottom.. Once the longest freighter on the Great Lakes, the 729-foot ship was . They believed he was happy to have the company after such a long time alone at the bottom of a lake. Kamloops's owners operated the ship as late into the season as possible: in 1924 it was one of the last vessels to pass through the Sault Ste. They use a lot of words like cultural genocide, Rouillard told The Post. Its an example of science playing an affirming role of what the Knowledge Keepers already recognized.. [3] The ship had two rigged masts and a 1000HP triple expansion steam engine with Scotch boilers. The system forcibly separated children from their families for extended periods of time and forbade them to acknowledge their Indigenous heritage and culture or to speak their own languages, according to the website of the First Nations and Indigenous Studies of the University of British Columbia. 84001769 [1] Added to NRHP. Today there is no wrong or right. . [10] The exact cause of her sinking remains a mystery as of 2022. My findings confirmed what Elders had shared, Beaulieu said after she presented a report about her work in July 2021 that did not include specific evidence. 'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Content copyright 2016 Planet Weird unless otherwise noted. The prospect of finding survivors still alive on Isle Royale was considered remote (Daily Mining Journal, Marquette Dec. 16, 1927). The Canadian government and provincial authorities pledgedabout $320 millionto fund more research and in Decemberpledged another $40 billioninvolving First Nations child-welfare claim settlements thatpartially compensate some residential school attendees. The body of one of the deceased crew members, dubbed Old Whitey, floats amongst the wreckage of the ship with some divers claiming follows them as th The temperature dropped to 10 degrees below at Port Arthur. The decedent's body has remained underwater in the wreckage of the vessel since the foundering on December 7, 1927. Four remained unidentified and were buried at Thunder Bay. (you try to explain that one).then we have the bigfoot sightings and multipile (although hidden) haunted houses. Perhaps theres still a clue about the disaster hes hoping someone will discover, a piece of his story that will let him rest. Photo: Doug Bell . It might be that some member or members of the crew got ashore and are wandering about the island. Intact and undisturbed. Phone: (250) 372-3322 Newsroom: (250) 851-3204. It wasnt until the spring that the first signs of the Kamloops demise were discovered by fishermen of Isle Royale. All had been found with lifebelts. Tomson Highway, a full-blood Cree, is a well-known Canadian composer, author and pianist. Konnie LeMay SS Kamloops was a Canadian lake freighter that was part of the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines from its launching in 1924 until it sank with all hands in Lake Superior off Isle Royale, Michigan, United States, on or about 7 December 1927. It doesn't mention the body in the engine room though. On May 26, the electrifying news that the fishermen of Isle Royale had found bodies believed to belong to the crew of Kamloops reached the newspapers (Calumet News, May 26, 1928; Detroit Free Press, May 27, 1928). Storm signals were raised once again on December 7, as a northeast wind began blowing at 20 to 30 miles per hour. On the last dive of the weekend, Engelbrecht, at a depth of 195 feet "saw this really big shadow, the Kamloops, and this other shadow coming out of it, which was the flagpole. The alleged burial ground, which is said to include 215 bodies some as young as 3 years old was located with the help of ground-penetrating radar at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, which was run by the Roman Catholic Church from 1890 to 1978. I came across an interesting story recently that circulates among diving enthusiasts. Several sleepless weeks. Lloyd W. Krohn, 55, of Wyoming, Minnesota, was diving in a party of three on a charter SCUBA trip to the park operated by Isle Royale Charters, Inc. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. I don't remember who wrote it, but it's in one of the Alfred Hitchcock story collections and I read it several times when I was a kid. [5] However, on 21 August 1977,[4] her wreck was discovered northwest of Isle Royale, near what is now known as Kamloops Point, by a group of sport divers carrying out a systematic search for the ship. Today she sits preserved in time in 265ft of water on her starboard side. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore They say the body is ghostly white and still has it's wedding ring on it's finger. The Kamloops was built in the UK for Steamships Ltd. of Montreal, Canada. Five bodies were able to be identified and the remains were shipped to the next of kin. Outdoors. Since the Kamloops discovery, investigators using ground-penetrating radar say theyve located what may be the unmarked graves of another 800 or so children at residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, according to reports. The explorer, Fred Shannon, is releasing the book and video next week to mark the sinking of the 729-foot ore carrier during a gale on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975. There are also human remains floating about the ship, forever held prisoner by the SS Kamloops and the icy depths of Lake Superior. Divers who explored the ship couldnt believe how well-preserved it was. He was spotted by the boat crew and was brought aboard unresponsive and not breathing. This is the anchor chain to the OOCL Honk Kong container ship, being raised out of the water. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths, Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tkemlps te Secwpemc, said in a statement on May 27, 2021. CNN . A search for Kamloops began in earnest December 12. Captain. [3][4] In addition, wreckage from the ship was discovered ashore. SS Kamloops story elements are probably real (except for the body swimming around). Submit Yours, 2020 Lake Superior Publishing LLC. Archaeologists have discovered 17 decapitated bodies at three Roman cemeteries in Cambridgeshire, eastern England -- an "exceptionally high' number which experts think were the result of judicial . Would they possibly "eat" a body? [4] The ship, and the twenty-two men and women aboard, were never seen alive again. "Old Whitey" is the nickname given to a deceased crewman of the SS Kamloops, which sank in Lake Superior in 1927. Mrs. Brian expected her husband home for the winter season six days later on Saturday, December 10. They attempted to assist him but were forced to send him to the surface alone after he became unconscious. THE STORY OF MY KAMLOOPS-My fascination with the Kamloops began at an early age in the late 1980s, when I saw a PBS television program about shipwrecks narrated by Scott Glenn. The freezing temperatures have turned his body white as snow causing him to be given the name Old Whitey or Grandpa by visiting divers. The downbound grain fleet had weathered the storm at Fort William. 14 June 1984. Scary For Kids, His body stiff and his skin white as snow, the nameless member of the Kamloops crewhad floated inside the ship for fifty years, alone until the divers began to occasionally filter in. I never forgot the 2 or 3 minutes they devoted to the Kamloops. Ah, very true my australian companion, very true. They speak of paying respects to Old Whitey or shaking hands with grandpa. Even if they couldn't get the body, it seems kind of odd that at first, it is stuck in an engine, and then it can somehow magically free itself and swim. Duluth Seaway Port Authority more information on current conditions explore the source materials that contributed to the. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. HOUGHTON, MI - On Saturday, July 13, a recreational SCUBA diver exploring the Kamloops shipwreck at Isle Royale National Park was fatally injured in a diving accident. One year ago today, the leaders of the British Columbia First Nation Band Tkemlps te Secwpemc announced the discovery of a mass grave ofmore than 200 Indigenous childrendetected at a residential school in British Columbia. While it is not new to find graves at former Residential Schools in , it's always . Researchers discovered the ship at the bottom of Michigan's Lake Superior last summer. Canadian professor Frances Widdowson said that no one dares question indigenous leaders in Canada these days, which makes it difficult to check their claims about buried remains of children. 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